groupe de deux oies en jade céladon pâle sculpté Chine, dynastie Qing, époque Qianlong (1736-1795)

tête-bêche sur une feuille de lotus, l'une tenant dans le bec une branche de pêches, l'autre des citrons digités, les détails du plumage et l'expression des oiseaux finement ciselés, la pierre d'une belle teinte céladon pâle avec des inclusions rouille et un doux poli 

Good condition ; a few natural russet inclusions in the stone (showing on the catalogue illustration ) ; the actual color is a fraction more celadon not as greige white as on the illustration.
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Compare with a goose group published in Chinese Jade Animals, The Urban Council of Hong Kong, 1996, n°179, p.186-187.